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Components</H1>
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<p CLASS="Para">Components are a mechanism for grouping plug-ins.  Components, and thus all of their plug-ins, can be installed and uninstalled.  Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) should look at components as the means of delivering their tooling.  Simple tools may consist of only one plug-in,
while complex tools may require many.  Components give ISVs one concept to manipulate as they scale from small to large tools.</p>
<p CLASS="Para">One place components are found is in the Help Menu's <a href="../reference/ref-61.htm#SoftwareUpdates">Software
Updates section</a>.
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